Jinyi Town Mountains and Rivers

Chapter 13

Jiajing 19 years.The second assistant Yan Song and the first assistant Xia Yan fought to the death in the court hall.The officialdom in the capital was jittery.

At that time, He Liu was still a boy in his twenties.His father, He Quan, inspected hundreds of households in front of Jinyiwei. With his father as a big tree, He Liu could be like those Shixun's children in the capital, fighting crickets, raising birds, and playing with money to pass the time.

In the court hall, the party struggle between Xia and Yan was in full swing.Today you are an official of the Six Departments, tomorrow you will be a prisoner.In the morning, you go up to court in a large sedan chair with eight lifts, and in the evening, you may abandon the market at Caishikou. . . .The bloody storm in the officialdom did not affect He Liu's happy mood at all.

He Liu once said to his cronies: "Yan Cifu is in power or Xia Shoufu is in power, what about our brothers? Let's keep our thrushes and fight our crickets."

The comfortable time of He Liu's youth came to an abrupt end in the winter of Jiajing's 19th year.

Strict party cadre, Dali Temple Minister Huang Shougong was impeached by Xia party censors for five major crimes of corruption and bribery and seven major crimes of malfeasance.The emperor ordered Jin Yiwei to search Huang Shougong's family property.

He Liu's father, He Quan, was the inspector of Jinyiwei's hundred households - the family scrambler.The job naturally fell on him.

He Quan turned Huang Shougong's mansion upside down, exhausted all the skills of copying the house passed down by his ancestors - but found nothing.

Even He Quan himself doubted that Huang Shougong was an upright official, and that he was convicted because of being framed.

Until one day, someone told He Quan that Huang Shougong lived in another house on Yuquan Mountain in the suburbs of Beijing.

He Quan led more than a hundred people to find this outer house on Yuquan Mountain.There was no one in the outer house.

He Quan checked again—still found nothing.

However, things turned around, he actually found a secret box in the vegetable cellar in the kitchen of the house.There is no gold or silver treasure in the secret box, only an ancient book "Treasure Gathering Essentials".

He Quan is like a treasure--this ancient book written by Tong Guan, a giant in the Song Dynasty, is the dream of hundreds of households who inspected in the past dynasties!Because the book records hundreds of secret methods of hiding silver.

The lone copy of this ancient book is said to have been lost when the Yuan people destroyed the Song Dynasty.Now seeing the sun again, He Quan was very excited.

He Quan forgot about finding dirty money.He ordered his men to spend the night in this house.

With the help of the faint candlelight, He Quan finished reading this strange book in one sitting.Prepare to find the dirty silver according to the book at dawn the next day.

A deep sleepiness hit He Quan's head.He fell asleep.

I don't know how long it took, a gust of wind hit.He Quan opened his eyes and wanted to get up, but found that he was so weak that he couldn't even stand upright.

He wanted to call out to his subordinates—more than a hundred subordinates were all limp on the ground, unable to move.

In the darkness, a strange cry sounded: "Yin Division Eryin Shuai crosses the road! Those who stand in the way will be killed without mercy!"

Then, countless paper money fell from the sky.Dozens of "yin soldiers and generals" entered the yellow house.In the haze, He Quan found that these "yin soldiers and generals" were all suspended in the air - they didn't have long legs at all.

Yin soldiers and Yin generals cut the throats of He Quan's men like slaughtering animals.

The Yin general in the lead "floats" to He Quan's side, trying to take away the "Treasure Gathering Technique" from He Quan's hand.

How did He Quan easily hand over the wonderful book that the officials in brocade clothes have been dreaming about day and night?

He put all his strength into his left hand, grabbing the book tightly.Yin Jiang tore hard, leaving the cover of "Jubao Yaoshu" in He Quan's hands.

On the cover, there are only four words "Jubao Yaoshu", and there are no words about Tibetan silver methods.

Yin Jiang didn't snatch the cover from He Quan's hand any more, but picked up the sword in his hand, and stabbed He Quan's right chest with one sword.

He Quan did not return to Beizhen Fusi to pay the order for a long time.Beizhen Fusi sent Tiqi to Yuquan Mountain to look for it.They found that in Huang Shougong's outer house - He Liu's more than 100 subordinates were all killed.Only He Quan was seriously injured and was still alive.

People from Beizhen Fusi carried He Quan home with his life hanging by a thread.

He Quan asked his son He Liu to be found, and said to his son, "You are twenty, and you are a man of indomitable spirit. You have to take care of yourself from now on."

He Quan handed the cover of "Jubao Yaoshu" to He Liu: "Remember, your father was killed because of this book. Find this book, find those pretenders, and avenge me."

After finishing speaking, He Quan died.

Afterwards, He Liu inherited his father's position of inspecting hundreds of households and became the family copying officer of Jinyiwei.

In the court, the strict party also made a counterattack.That Lord Huang Shougong was acquitted because Jin Yiwei failed to find evidence of his corruption and bribery, and was reinstated.

A few months later, Huang Shougong died of illness.

Jin Yiwei killed more than a hundred people in one fell swoop, which should be a huge case.For some reason, a decree came out from the palace: no one should investigate the ghost house case anymore.

He Liu has been inspecting hundreds of households for 17 years - secretly investigating the ghost house case for 17 years.

Three years ago, Huang Shougong's son Huang Shan became the governor of Shuntian Mansion.He Liu accidentally took Huang Shan's handle and threatened him to tell the secret of his father Huang Shougong.

Huang Shan and He Liu agreed to meet at Songhe Tower that night.

He Liu was very excited - one step closer to the truth of "Jubao Yaoshu" and the ghost house case.

Unexpectedly, in the middle of the night journey, He Liu's house suddenly caught fire. In the fire, his wife died in Huangquan to protect her daughter Xiangxiang.

That Master Huang Shanhuang also died suddenly in Songhe Tower "emergency".

"Jubao Yaoshu" and the ghost house case caused He Liu to lose two close relatives.

Sometimes He Liu also thinks, forget it, what's the point of investigating the old case from 20 years ago?The murderer of the ghost house case seems to have been spying on him in the past 20 years.If he takes action to investigate the case again, the murderer will definitely kill him and his daughter Xiangxiang without hesitation.

He Liu himself didn't care.But his daughter Xiangxiang is more important than his life.For the sake of Xiangxiang, he has not pursued the ghost house case in the past three years.

The four big silver pillars in Wan Anliang's house made him suspect that Ku Bing Ding Wang had read "Jubao Yaoshu".This made him want to continue to search for the truth of the ghost house case.

In his head, a voice shouted at Chaoheliu: "Don't touch the old case from 20 years ago—for Xiangxiang."

Before his death, his father He Quan's entreaty also rang in He Liu's ears: "Your father was killed because of this book, find this book, find those pretenders, and avenge me!"

He Liuquan didn't feel sleepy.He picked up an exquisite wooden box from under the bed, and opened the three exquisite locks on it with three keys.

Inside the wooden box lay quietly the cover of "Treasure Gathering Technique".

He Liu stared at the cover for a sleepless night.

Early the next morning, Lao Hu came to He Liu's house on time to grab a meal.

Seeing that He Liu's eyes were bloodshot, Old Hu asked, "Did you sleep well last night?"

He Liu nodded: "Well, I didn't sleep well."

Old Hu said: "We don't have any errands today. You can go to the duty room and take a nap."

"Boom boom boom".There was a knock at the courtyard door.

He Liu walked out of the yard, and saw two boys dressed as bookboys standing at the gate of the yard.

(End of this chapter)